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Reiterating her opposition to the two marinas in the Zuari river proposed by the Mormugao Port Trust (MPT), environment minister Alina Saldanha on Wednesday said she firmly believed that chief minister Laxmikant Parsekar and her government would never cast aside the interests of local people and allow the two marinas.

BJP MLAs Alina Saldanha and Vishnu Wagh vehemently oppose the development of the two marinas that got clearance from the Goa Investment Promotion Board on April 13.

The Canacona block Congress Committee has strongly objected to the proposed marina project in Canacona expressing apprehensions that "it will cause harm" to the livelihoods of the locals.

The Korean Association will host a beach clean up initiative, 'We Love Marina' on Saturday from 7am to 8.30am at the lighthouse. Chennai is home to around 4000 Koreans who work in more than 200 Korean companies and Small and Medium Enterpises (SMEs) like Korean restaurants and guest houses.

The Karnataka State Road Transport Corporation (KSRTC) will be launching new "Airavath diamond class and Karnataka sarige" bus Services on Wednesday.

Triple jumper Renjith Maheswary finished seventh with a below-par performance in the Diamond League athletics meet in Shanghai on Sunday. Maheswary could only produce a best effort of 16.16m, which was well below his national record mark of 17.07m.

'Jayashri Talkies', one of the oldest cinema halls in Bijapur city will celebrate its Diamond Jubilee soon.

The Archdiocese of Bangalore will celebrate its diamond jubilee on Tuesday.

CS Nautiyal, director of CSIR-NBRI welcomed the guest speaker, students and other eminent scientists of the city who were present on this occasion. SK Raj, chief scientist, CSIR-NBRI, proposed vote of thanks.

It provides a platform for independent researchers to access technologies that are readily available to them.

The open source drug discovery model which operates on an open innovation model is a viable approach, as it pools the efforts of many independent research ideas and data, are integrated to find a solution to the problem, he said.

A paradigm shift towards healthcare especially in finding a cure for neglected diseases can not only increase the rate of success but reduce time and cost to atleast 10 fold in development of drug.

He remarked that drug discovery is a capital intensive and it takes more than two decades to develop a successful drug.

&ldquoWe have very few drugs for TB as compared to HIV which has 25 drugs in the market in the last 25 years. We are morally responsible for finding a solution for eradicating this disease as two deaths occur in every 3 minutes in India due to TB,&rdquo he said.

He said that pharmaceutical companies don&rsquot work generally for such diseases due to lack of return of investment.